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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8PM on Friday, January 30, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Ruth Elizabeth Roth Jasinski age 92 of Lakewood, formerly of Wayne, passed at home on Monday, January 26, 2015.
She was born in Beaver Falls, PA and had the distinction of being delivered by the same doctor who delivered her mom and a few aunts all at the family home on 6th Avenue in Beaver Falls, PA. Ruth was baptized at the First Lutheran Church in Beaver Falls, PA and raised in Boardman, OH before returning to Beaver Falls graduating Valedictorian from Beaver Falls High School with the Class of 1940. She went on to attend Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA.
Ruth’s father fell ill and to supplement the family income she went to work at the Curtis Wright Corporation’s Beaver, PA location where she was to oversee twenty women in the international mailing department. It was here that she met a cute man named Walter Jasinski. Their first date was to a movie in Beaver Falls and Ruth fell asleep during the movie – although this may have been an excuse for when her parents asked her what the movie was about. They eventually fell in love but had to run away to marry as Ruth was Lutheran and Walter was a Roman Catholic. They married on May 13, 1942 at the Notre Dame RC Church in Caldwell and lived in Verona, NJ. Ruth’s mom didn’t convey her blessing on the marriage and was very concerned that her daughter was living in poverty in New Jersey so she sent one of her other daughters to scout out Ruth’s living arrangements. Eventually her mom came to love Walt as a son. Ruth was paying $38.00 per month rent and she told Walt it was too much. They started looking for a home to buy and wound up in front of 20 Chestnut Drive in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne. Neither Walt nor Ruth even went into the house, they said it was perfect and for a purchase price of $6795.00 they signed on the dotted line. They raised their family in Wayne where they lived together for sixty five years. After Walt’s death Ruth moved to Leisure Park in Lakewood in 2010.
Ruth was a founding member of the Packanack Community Church in Wayne. Along with raising five children Ruth was a member and past president of the Fire Ladies Auxiliary, worked on the Pack-A-News, coached girl's softball, was a Brownie Scout Co-leader, taught craft classes at the church and was seen daily walking the beautiful route around the lake. She was a volunteer for the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad for fifteen years, a certified Red Cross instructor, a member of the Wayne Historical Commission, and the owner of Ruth’s Flower Basket in Wayne for over ten years.
She was the loving wife of sixty-six years to the late former Wayne Township Mayor (1978-1986) Walter J. Jasinski (2008); devoted mother of John P. Jason and his wife Sharyn of Goodyear, AZ, the late David W. Jasinski (2009) and his wife Nancy of Wayne, JoAnn Shoemaker and her husband Dr. Ritchie of Pocomoke, MD, W. James Jasinski and his wife Marilyn of Toms River, and Elizabeth Catherine “Katie” Jasinski of Salisbury, MD ; cherished grandmother of nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; dear sister of the late Joseph Paul Roth, Phyllis McKenzie, and Dorothy Swisher.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470 or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8PM on Friday, January 30, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8PM on Friday, January 30, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Ruth Elizabeth Roth Jasinski age 92 of Lakewood, formerly of Wayne, passed at home on Monday, January 26, 2015.
She was born in Beaver Falls, PA and had the distinction of being delivered by the same doctor who delivered her mom and a few aunts all at the family home on 6th Avenue in Beaver Falls, PA. Ruth was baptized at the First Lutheran Church in Beaver Falls, PA and raised in Boardman, OH before returning to Beaver Falls graduating Valedictorian from Beaver Falls High School with the Class of 1940. She went on to attend Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA.
Ruth’s father fell ill and to supplement the family income she went to work at the Curtis Wright Corporation’s Beaver, PA location where she was to oversee twenty women in the international mailing department. It was here that she met a cute man named Walter Jasinski. Their first date was to a movie in Beaver Falls and Ruth fell asleep during the movie – although this may have been an excuse for when her parents asked her what the movie was about. They eventually fell in love but had to run away to marry as Ruth was Lutheran and Walter was a Roman Catholic. They married on May 13, 1942 at the Notre Dame RC Church in Caldwell and lived in Verona, NJ. Ruth’s mom didn’t convey her blessing on the marriage and was very concerned that her daughter was living in poverty in New Jersey so she sent one of her other daughters to scout out Ruth’s living arrangements. Eventually her mom came to love Walt as a son. Ruth was paying $38.00 per month rent and she told Walt it was too much. They started looking for a home to buy and wound up in front of 20 Chestnut Drive in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne. Neither Walt nor Ruth even went into the house, they said it was perfect and for a purchase price of $6795.00 they signed on the dotted line. They raised their family in Wayne where they lived together for sixty five years. After Walt’s death Ruth moved to Leisure Park in Lakewood in 2010.
Ruth was a founding member of the Packanack Community Church in Wayne. Along with raising five children Ruth was a member and past president of the Fire Ladies Auxiliary, worked on the Pack-A-News, coached girl's softball, was a Brownie Scout Co-leader, taught craft classes at the church and was seen daily walking the beautiful route around the lake. She was a volunteer for the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad for fifteen years, a certified Red Cross instructor, a member of the Wayne Historical Commission, and the owner of Ruth’s Flower Basket in Wayne for over ten years.
She was the loving wife of sixty-six years to the late former Wayne Township Mayor (1978-1986) Walter J. Jasinski (2008); devoted mother of John P. Jason and his wife Sharyn of Goodyear, AZ, the late David W. Jasinski (2009) and his wife Nancy of Wayne, JoAnn Shoemaker and her husband Dr. Ritchie of Pocomoke, MD, W. James Jasinski and his wife Marilyn of Toms River, and Elizabeth Catherine “Katie” Jasinski of Salisbury, MD ; cherished grandmother of nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; dear sister of the late Joseph Paul Roth, Phyllis McKenzie, and Dorothy Swisher.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470 or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad would be appreciated.
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